Submission Manuscripts and Documentation

Authors are invited to submit their scholarly contribution, together with a curriculum vitae and an indication of their principal areas of interest and expertise, to: redazione@aequitasmagazine.it, through the dedicated submission form available on the website (the system does not issue an acknowledgement of receipt).

Aequitas Magazine operates in compliance with its Publication Ethics (PDF), which forms an integral part of the Journal’s editorial policies. Authors are strongly encouraged to read the Ethics Code before submission and are required to comply with all applicable provisions.

Evaluation and Peer-Review Procedure

Scholarly contributions submitted for publication undergo a preliminary editorial screening to assess their consistency with the Journal’s scientific scope and aims and are also subject to plagiarism screening.

Manuscripts admitted to scientific evaluation undergo double-blind peer review and are assigned to at least two independent Reviewers, selected on the basis of their expertise in the subject matter of the manuscript and the absence of conflicts of interest. Reviewers may be members of the Scientific Committee or external experts, subject to the safeguards of independence established by the Ethics Code.

The Author’s identity is not disclosed to the Reviewers, and the Reviewers’ identities are not disclosed to the Author. Where the evaluations differ significantly, the opinion of an additional Reviewer may be sought.

The ordinary timeframe for completion of the peer-review process is four weeks. For particularly complex contributions, or where circumstances relating to the evaluation process so require, the procedure may take longer.

Following evaluation, the manuscript may be accepted, accepted subject to revisions, returned for further evaluation after the requested revisions, or rejected for publication.

Scientific Requirements and Editorial Purpose

To be admitted to evaluation, contributions must be written in Italian or English, be consistent with the Journal’s scientific scope and aims, be scholarly in nature and original, and must not have been previously published as scholarly articles in another journal or editorial publication, nor be simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

Prior dissemination of the work as a preprint is permitted, provided that it is expressly disclosed by the Author at the time of submission, in accordance with the Ethics Code.

The manuscript must demonstrate clarity of exposition, coherence and logical consistency, terminological accuracy, accuracy in bibliographic and source research, depth of analysis, relevance, methodological quality, validity of results, critical analysis and scientific rigor, and must be intended for study and research purposes.

Copyright and Publication Licence

Upon acceptance of the contribution, the Author retains copyright and grants the Publisher a non-exclusive right of first publication, authorizing publication and dissemination in Open Access in accordance with the Journal’s editorial policies and the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

The licence allows anyone to share and adapt the work, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the Author and the work’s first publication in Aequitas Magazine is acknowledged, in accordance with the terms of the licence.

Authors retain their rights in the work and may deposit the Version of Record in institutional or disciplinary repositories or in any other repository of their choice, without embargo, subject to the applicable licence.

Publication is entirely free of charge for Authors: no APCs (Article Processing Charges), submission fees or other publication charges are applied. Contributions are provided on a voluntary basis and Authors are not entitled to remuneration or reimbursement of expenses.

Scientific Macro-Area and Thematic Areas

The Journal’s subject matter falls within the “Social Sciences” scientific macro-area, Area 12 “Law”, and may encompass multiple fields through interdisciplinary intersections and connections, according to the Journal’s Thematic Areas:

• Current Case Law: contemporary case law, with particular attention to judgments of the Joint Sections of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation;
• Current Legal Issues: legal issues of significant contemporary social, cultural and geopolitical relevance;
• Civil Law;
• Criminal Law;
• Law and Anthropology;
• Law and Bioethics;
• Law and History;
• Law and Technology.

Conflicts of Interest and Submission Integrity

Authors are required to disclose any conflicts of interest, sources of funding or other circumstances that may affect the independence or transparency of the research, and to disclose any significant use of generative artificial intelligence tools, in accordance with the Ethics Code. Generative AI may not be listed as an Author or co-author.

Editorial Guidelines

The title must not exceed 150 characters, including spaces. It should contain the principal keyword, preferably near the beginning, and should be direct, clear, concise and effective.

Quotations from other authors and from legislative or judicial texts must be set in italics and enclosed in quotation marks, with the source indicated, preferably in a footnote. Quotations must not exceed 20% of the total length of the manuscript.

Length: articles must contain between 800 and 8,000 words; manuscripts exceeding 8,000 words may be submitted as monographs. Contributions exceeding 3,000 words should preferably be divided into titled sections and accompanied by an initial table of contents.

The manuscript must include a concise Abstract.

Bold type, highlighting, underlining and links to external websites should not be included in the main text. Terms in ancient or foreign languages should be italicized (e.g. sine titulo, tout court, stalking), as should quotations and quoted sources.

Abbreviations may be used for legislative sources, judicial decisions and courts or judicial authorities (e.g. c.c., d.lgs., Cost.; sent., ord.; Cass., CJEU, and similar abbreviations), as well as acronyms for supranational entities, international organizations and other institutions (e.g. EU, UN, INPS).

Authors are encouraged to provide up to seven keywords, an essential bibliography of authors and works (in the following order: surname and first name, title, publisher, place, year, pages; for online journals, the ISSN should be indicated; for ancient sources, the collection/compilation, fragment or source work should be specified), together with any explanatory notes.

Authors may propose or attach a rectangular image in JPG format, between 80 and 300 kB.

Accepted languages are Italian and English. The manuscript and curriculum vitae may be submitted, at the Author’s discretion, in either Word or PDF format.